Archive for the 'Africa' Category

Zimbabwe police bar health march

Police in Zimbabwe bar medical staff from marching to protest about the country's deteriorating health system.

Life sentence

Mother's anguish at being locked up - for having TB

Aids diary

Lesotho villagers tell of daily HIV struggle

Fears of disease in Congo camps

Aid agencies warn of the risks of disease in DR Congo refugee camps, as fresh fighting breaks out across the country.

Mbeki blamed for 330,000 deaths

South Africa's ex-President Mbeki should account for blocking Aids drugs, a move said to have cost 330,000 lives, an activist says.